The Ugliest Cars in Britain

Part 1 - the first part

Conveyance:	Paper Bag Rating*
Citroen DS
	Known to strange individuals as "The Goddess." Obviously this was the Goddess of people with vision defects. For some bizarre reason many people seem to think that this car is a design classic. We think not. It's as attractive as a slug-filled croissant.
Ford Ka
	When the Habitat designer submitted his latest teapot design to Ford as an April fool's joke, little did he know that by an administrative error it would end up on the road.
Citroen 2CV
	This used to be the preferred transport for teachers, eco-warriors, weird-beards and people who don't wash their hair. The 2Cv was modelled on a boating accident that occurred in Cherbourg in 1923.
Austin Allegro
Allegro Vanden Plas - thanks to Gary Davison	This vile beast was one of a string of Austin/British Leyland uglies. If you were lucky you could get the stylish Vanden Plas version with chrome radiator grille and walnut veneer fascia. If you were even luckier you could have had the version with the square steering wheel!
Citroen Ami 8
Thanks to Matt Concannon for submitting his car (good sport)	The Citroen Ami 8 is to automotive design what Yasser Arafat is to glamour modelling. However, it is nothing that four sticks of dynamite and a match wouldn't fix.
Reliant Robin
(this is actually a Rialto - but close enough)	The Reliant Robin - or "Robin Reliant" as some backward-thinking people call it. This mirth-inducing novelty was also known as "The Plastic Pig" - I'd rather have a bag of pork scratchings thanks.
Austin Princess
thanks to Alex Shepherd for the pic	This wedge shaped monster had "hydragas" suspension. Pity that it looked best in the hydro-pneumatic jaws of a crushing machine. Later re-born as the Ambassador, but should have been aborted.
Ssangyong/Daewoo Musso
Thanks to Rob Lawson for the pic.	Ssangyong described this thing as having a "dolphin-type aerodynamic shape" - can you see the resemblance? We think that "pregnant haddock on a bike" is probably a closer match.
Skoda Estelle
	Designed in the former Czechoslovakia by Pavel Placenta, a biscuit factory worker from Prague. A country that has a reputation for making the best beer in the world also managed to produce some of the worst cars in the world. Hmmn...I wonder if there's a connection?
Vauxhall Tigra
	This little coupe probably could have looked quite nice - except the designer allowed his pet antelope to design the back of it.

Part Two

* Paper Bag Rating:

The number of paper bags you would have to wear on your head before accepting a ride in the car.

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